[_She stands waiting, breathless._ STEVEN _steals out with his arm
about_ LOUISE.
GEORGIANA. [_Excitedly, to herself._] _Come!_ No, no! It can't be true!
It can't be true! They killed him, those brutes out there! You told me
so! Every one believed it! I believed it! And so you want me to believe
he's alive! That he's here! In this house, coming into this room--that I
shall see--
[_She stops suddenly, looking up. The door-knob of the door Left turns.
Every nerve in_ GEORGIANA'S _body grows tense._ MOLES _opens the door
and lets_ DICK _pass in and closes the door behind him._
GEORGIANA. [_Cries out._] Dick!
[DICK _goes towards her, but stops. She starts towards him, stops a
moment, and they look at each other, unable to speak,--then she goes on
slowly, almost fearfully, till she reaches him._
DICK. [_Moving to her._] Georgy!
[_He stands before her with both arms bandaged in a sling._
GEORGIANA. [_Whispers._] Dick! [_Looks him straight in the eyes--he
looks back. She cries out._] Dick!
[_Holding out her arms toward him._
DICK. Georgy! [_He looks down at his arms._] My arms--I can't--
GEORGIANA. Oh, Dick!
[_And putting her arms tenderly about his neck, she holds him close, as
he leans down his head and kisses her, and_
THE CURTAIN FALLS
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